Then up got Little John, and, taking the bag of gold, which he thrust into his bosom, he strapped a girdle about his loins, took a stout pikestaff full seven feet long in his hand, and set forth upon his journey.

Up he rose at the dawn of the next day, and, taking his stout pikestaff in his hand, he set forth upon his journey once more, as though he would make up for lost time.

Yet it was plain as a pikestaff from the very outset that Barclays wasn't the only financial institution up to no good, getrich-quick merchants in other dealing rooms were part of the concerted conspiracy to rig markets.

Recorder Nicholls said: "It must have been as plain as a pikestaff being able to do all of these things on the golf course that you were in no way entitled to the highest level of disability living allowance.

However, not only is the eastern boundary of East Many Wells Farm only 20 yards from the mouth of the spring, but the property is largely situate upland of Trooper's Farm (12, 94), and, as Taggart puts it, '[i]t would have been plain as a pikestaff (to anyone who had inspected the property) that the water gushing from the Spring came from underneath the upland farm' (93).

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